THB HIMALAYA MOUNTAmS. 89* 
^ it Would not be easy to convey by any description 
idea of the peculiarly rugg-ed and gloomy wildness 
this glen ; it looks like the ruins of nature, and ap- 
I as it is said to be, completely impracticable and 
^penetrable. Little is to be seen except dark rock : 
O'xl only fringes the lower parts and the waters’ edge: 
• ^''haps die spots and streaks of snow, contrasting with 
g’® Sener.-d b ackness of the scene, lu-igluen the appear- 
of desolation. No living tiling is seen ; no motion 
sii,l ■ of the waters ; no Bound but their roar. Such a. 
and here it is ac- 
iMany wild traditions 
Co'^V*^ suited to engender snperstitioi 
ai-g^ found in full growth. iM 
..P^^ nserved, and many extravagant stories related of it. 
Aheglei, above described isliy lar tlie most gloomy 
savage - . - . . 
d® scene we have yet met with, i regret that the 
I> ^her did not permit a sketch of it to be attempted, 
riv^^"'^ this -we could see nothing in the' course id the 
pi-e I- hanks, 'i’he opposite side is particularly 
=‘-’!i;itous ; yet along its face a road is carried, which is 
a-; nmcii as tliis, and leads to the villages still 
tluiT % ^he time u'e had reached the village, the 
hill*' *1 " hich had lowered around and sunk down on the 
I'he' r"”" burst with loud tluinder and heavy rain. 
®ttd "'as fearfully reverberated among the hills; 
of the night mure than once the sound was heiird 
from the brows of the mountains, crashing 
tcfg *-he depths below witli a terrific din. Our tjuar- 
goofl- I slept in a temple, neat, clean, and se- 
the weather. 
*’‘®OTRlti5j THE SOURCE OF THE JUMNA, A BRANCH OF 
^ The GANCES, IN THE HIMALA .MOUNTAINS. 
source of the Jumna, the most sacred 
first r* ^ Oanges, ought to hold and does bear the 
*®''> alT*‘ ds holy places. Here, says Mr. Fra- 
<leo jj, 'Mythological if not holy ground. Here Malia- 
ilefy enthroned in cloud.s and mist amid rocks that 
'^osolatf ^PP’°®fh of living tiling, and snows llnit make 
'^'’‘'tinugii "More awful. Gods, goddesses, and saints here 
traveijg* .y him at mysterious distance, and you 
he the m ^-^Miliar haunts. But, although Gungotree 
°‘t sacred, it is not the most frequented shrine, 
